This is a common notion of people in India today that lawyers only wear black coats and shout at top of their voices addressing the judges as “Mee LAURD”. They are also alleged to debate on unnecessary things and put theatrics and dramatics in their arguments. Well debating is no different from this. The only difference is-you have to put all this along with a substantial matter which is not at all supposed to be senseless. NLIU and most other colleges now-a-days basically follow the parliamentary form of debating. There a debate has to be won by an entire team but not only an individual and there is a proposition and opposition and not for and against.
One of the leading in this regard is the United Asian Debate Championship. Our contingent was lucky enough to represent our university in this international championship and so were the other contingents of India who represented their colleges in this competition which was held in Bangkok this year. Actually not as lucky as other Asian nations were. Because trust me it’s really tough to understand accent of the chinks and most of the nations there had high pitches and high cheek bones. That actually made us realise that whatever and however Indians try we are still far away from the fight of accents, thus it’s better to leave it for the call centres, debaters shouldn’t even try it.
